Maison
Donec Vincam
The story
D·V is the sporting house of Smith & Smith Holding. It exists for one kind of request: the sporting experience that cannot be bought from a website or a ticket office, because it depends on access, timing and the trust of the people who give it.
The mark is drawn from polo: two crossed mallets and a single dot below, in the same fine line as every mark in the family. Gold on the mallet heads, ink on the shafts.
We keep the house small on purpose. Every arrangement is led by a founder, every partner is chosen for the request in hand, and nothing about a client is ever shared.
Donec VincamLatin · “until I prevail”
Donec vincam is Latin. Donec means until; vincam, I shall prevail. It is a promise of persistence: to keep going until the thing is done.
For a sporting house it is a fitting line. It describes the athlete, and it describes how we work on a request: patiently, quietly, until it is arranged as it should be.
The holding
A Smith & Smith Holding maison
Smith & Smith Holding is a private house of maisons, each devoted to one part of a private life: estates, marine, aviation, journeys, art, celebrations, sporting, gems and a private office.
When a sporting arrangement needs more, the other maisons are close at hand: an aircraft to the event, a yacht for the regatta, a house near the course. One introduction opens all of them.